Chip Daniels
Aug 23, 2017 · 1 min read

Its never about history. The statues themselves were not about recording history, but about pushing a preferred narrative that distorted history.

The current crop of white supremacists and Nazis are not analogous to nostalgic conservatives wanting to preserve a remembered state of affairs. Few of them were raised in KKK or Nazis families; They weren’t indoctrinated in this at an early age.

Instead, they are like the Western converts to ISIS, grasping onto a foreign heroic myth in which they themselves get to play a starring role.

Their desire for this myth overrides petty things like historical accuracy, empirical facts, and logic.

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